Exposing the Persecution of Dafa Practitioners in Baotou Detention Centre

Wardens at the Baotou Detention Centre of Inner Mongolia have brutally persecuted Dafa practitioners for a long time. The persecution methods include force feeding, handcuffing behind the back, tying practitioners’ hands and feet with steel chains so that they can hardly walk, thus making it extremely difficult to use the restroom, etc. Many Dafa practitioners were persecuted to the point of becoming disabled and couldn’t even take care of themselves in their daily lives.

A practitioner from Shandong was put in a detention centre and tortured and persecuted to a point where one side of his body became paralysed. He became incontinent and had to have someone take care of him at all times. The prison warden took away the 400 yuan¹ which was supposed be given to this practitioner by his family. Later this practitioner was taken back to his hometown.

Another practitioner on the second floor was frequently brought out to be tormented by interrogation and torture. One time he was shocked by electric baton so hard that he was pushed back into the steel fence gate.

However, practitioners did very well in the detention centre. They maintained their dignity, and were respected and admired even by the majority of the ordinary prisoners.

Practitioner Shang Huiying (presently still being kept at the Huhhot Women's Prison) showed symptoms of lost appetite after going on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. She once even swallowed a small pair of scissors to resist the torture and persecution. (Editor's note: During the extremely painful tortures, the victims even tried to take their own life to resist the pain. However, these were ordinary people’s thoughts and actions. Such incidents were sometimes seen among Chinese people who were subjected to a lot of torture. Nevertheless, it’s not how a practitioner should behave, because it doesn’t conform to Falun Dafa’s principle of not killing or committing suicide.) Later, she was made to eat a big bunch of leeks so that the scissors would come out with her stool. The prison police tied her and some drug addicts together with a chain, and told the drug addicts, "As long as the scissors she swallowed don't come out, you will be kept tied up with her." In the Baotou Detention Centre, Shang Huiying’s body suffered enormous devastation. She was only given steamed buns and rice gruel, and she was unable to keep even that down. Her body wasn’t able to absorb anything and she became very thin and weak. Later she was sentenced to 7 years in jail.

After Dafa practitioner Wang Xia started a hunger strike to protest the persecution, she was dragged out for forced feeding every day. Her hands and feet were shackled and linked with a steel chain. Often several people would put her on a metal chair, hold her head still, and push in a plastic tube to force-feed her. She suffered long-term torture, and one time, after being force-fed, she was thrown to the ground by the wardens. Because of being subjected to brutal force-feeding, and nearly having lost consciousness, she wasn’t able to move even a little bit on the ground. At that time, a warden even said that it was to let her have a "sun bath" and didn’t show any concern about whether she was alive or not. Because of warden Li Ping’s encouragement, the criminal prisoners often assaulted her. Criminal prisoner Li Jinglian even took off her own sanitary napkin and pushed it into Wang Xia’s mouth. Wang Xia tried to face up to Li Jinglian, but Li Jinglian then slapped Wang Xia and didn’t let her sleep. The head of the feeding tube was big and rough. When it was pulled out of the mouth, it was more than 3-4 feet long. The prison nurse whose surname is Ren (female, over 50 years old) said wickedly, "Use the steel pipe to feed her." In just a few days, Wang Xia’s throat was severely infected. Later she was forced to do manual labour in the labour camp and suffered from long-term dust inhalation. She incurred serious pharyngolaryngitis and exhibited symptoms of tracheitis. Each day she coughed deep into the night

Below are the wardens in the Baotou Detention Centre who have carried out the persecution:

Chief warden Wang Yao: He is noted for tricking practitioners with false kindness.

Warden Li Ping and her husband Li Fan stole a TV from the prison. She had prisoners wash bed sheets and clothes and knit woolen sweaters for her. She made the prisoners take care of almost all her housework. She said to practitioner Wang Xia, "Aren’t you on a hunger strike? It wouldn’t matter even if you die this time. We have (death) allowances."

Zhao Yunfeng, Zhao Haifeng, Dong Huiru, and Gao are all police officers known for their role in the persecution and taking part in the persecution of practitioners.

Note

1. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/8/1/134499.html